·Diffusion of Legal Codes: A Semiotic View,Mariano Croce, Centre for Law
and Cosmopolitan Values, Antwerp (Belgium)

·The Significance of Normative Translation
in the Diffusion of Law,Ko Hasegawa, University of Hokkaido
(Japan)

I.B Diffusion and Contamination in Family
Law

·Diffusion and the Family Law Revolution,Harry Willekens, Hildesheim
and Hannover (Germany),

·Diffuse Diffusion: The Example of Family Land in the Caribbean basin,Jane Glenn, McGill University
(Canada)

·The Contamination of Islamic law in UK: the Case of
the “Special Guardianship”,Rita Duca, Palermo (Italy)

I.CDomestication of Western Legal Ideas
in the Near and Middle East

·From the Civilizing Mission to the Domestication of Western Ideas and
Laws: The Ottoman Mixed Commercial Courts in the Late Nineteenth Century,Zülâl Muslu, Max-Planck-Institut
für europäische Rechtsgeschichte (Germany)

·Lost in Translation: Codes, Judges and International Lawyers in Nineteenth-Century Egypt, Luigi Nuzzo, University of Salento (Italy)

·TheDiffusionofWesternLegalConceptsintheKuwaitiLegalSystem:AnExaminationofSelectedConceptsfromanHistoricalandContemporaryPerspective,Myra EJB Williamson, Kuwait International Law School (Kuwait)

12:15-14:00 Lunch

14:00-15:15 Parallel Sessions II

II.
A Institutional, Doctrinal,
and Judicial Vehicles of Legal Diffusion

·Transplantation of Roman law in Jewish Legal tradition of France,
Provence and Catalonia in the Middle Ages, Nadezda Koryakina, University of Nantes (France)

·Libel, Liberty and Security in the 1820s Cape Colony,Kirsten McKenzie, University of Sydney (Australia)

IV.C
Diffusion of
Small Business Entities

·Missionaries as Carriers of the WLT in Africa
under Colonial Rule: A Case from the Congo, Jacques Vanderlinden, Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, and
Moncton, Canada

·The property of Croatian Communal
Households: Division per capita or per linea, or: Did the Austrian General
Civil Code Alter the Concept of Family Cooperatives? Mirela Krešić, University of Zagreb (Croatia)

·The Diffusion of Limited Companies
with Extremely Low Capital throughout Europe,Alessio
Bartolacelli, University of Trento (Italy)

10:45-11:15 Break

11:15-12:45 Parallel Sessions V

V.A Moving Constitutional Doctrines: Theory
and Practic

·Diffusion of Anglo-American Social Contract Theory in Europe,Alessio Lo Giudice, University
of Catania (Italy)

·Direct Democracy and Metropolitan Fragmentation in Switzerland and in
California: The
Diffusion of Direct Democracy Instruments in the End of the 19th Century and
its Effects on the Governance Models today in the Metropolitan Area,Thomas Favre-Bulle, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland)

·Comparative Constitutional Jurisprudence: an Empirical Survey of the
Influence of Foreign Law on South African Law through Constitutional Adjudication,Christa
Rautenbach, North-West University (South Africa)

V.BEastern and Western Europe: Identity
and Transplant

·The “Margin of Appreciation” in EHRC Case Law a Boundary Line to Legal Transplants?
Alessandra Pera, University of Palermo
(Italy)

·Legal Transplants in Russia: What do They Look Like and where to Find
Them?Ekaterina
Mouliarova, Regensburg (Germany) and the Moscow Lomonossow State University
(Russia),

·Legal Transplants and Legal Tradition in Russian
Law, Irina Moutaye, The Institute of Legislation and Comparative
Law (Russia)

V.CShifting Boundaries: Societies in
Transition

·The American Territories in the
Light of International Law, in two Treatises of the Sixteenth Century,Claudia Lopez, University of the Sea (Mexico)

·The Transplantation of an International and Medieval European Legal
Institution to the Tropical Wilderness: The Just War in Portuguese America´s
Colonial Law (XVI-XIX Centuries), José Pina-Delgado, Instituto Superior de Ciências Jurídicas & Sociais Praia –
Republic of Cape Verde (Cape Verde)

·Transitions and Diffusion: Global Industries of Legal and Social
Transformation, James Gallen, Dublin City
(Ireland)

12:45-14:30 Lunch

14:30-15:45 Parallel Sessions VI

VI.AChallenging and Rebuilding Homogeneity

·Codes and Nations: For a Neo-Durkheimian Approach to Codification
History, Nikolaus Linder, University of Göttingen
(Germany)

·Contamination of Different Penal Systems in the Duchy of Warsaw and the
Kingdom of Poland - Polish and Foreign Traditions,Anna Klimaszewska and Michał Gałędek, University of Gdańsk
(Poland)

·Shape of Liability
for Succession Debts in Evolving Circumstances,Elwira Macierzyńska -Franaszczyk, University of Kozminski (Poland)